Vladimir Putin and his Russia look more invincible today than at any other time in his 18 years in power and his certain victory in the presidential election a week away will further cement his authority

Vladimir Putin and his Russia look more invincible today than at any other time in his 18 years in power and his certain victory in the presidential election a week away will further cement his authority

In the early 1990s, when Russian presidential candidate Ksenia Sobchak was 11 years old, she said she would open the front door for Vladimir Putin when he came to her home. Putin was there to see her late father, Anatoly Sobchak, who served as the mayor of Saint Petersburg during the troubled years

Jared Kushner 's December meeting with Russian banker Sergey Gorkov is a focus in the FBI's investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election, sources told ABC News. In the wake of reports that Kushner, the president's son-in-law, discussed establishing back-channel communications with the

The Putin critic, Vladimir Kara-Murza, who has been in a coma for a week after apparently being poisoned, has regained consciousness and is now awake, his wife has told ABC News. Vladimir Kara-Murza has been in a hospital in critical condition since last Thursday when he abruptly fell ill,

The last Russian oligarch to challenge President Vladimir Putin politically -- and pay dearly for it -- says he's ready to try again. Mikhail Khodorkovsky was once Russia's richest man and the head of Russian energy giant Yukos. But after he made political moves against Putin, he was quickly tried

This story appears in ESPN The Magazine's Feb. 3 Music issue. Subscribe today! W hat to ask the ruler? Last summer I joined the presidential press pool in Sochi, Russia, the home of February's Olympics. Russian president -- and self-appointed Sochi Games manager -- Vladimir Putin was in town to

This week, Russian journalist and LGBT activist Masha Gessen, author of ‘Words Will Break Cement: The Passion of Pussy Riot’ answered five questions on the recent uproar over LGBT rights in Russia, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s political moves in advance of the Winter Games in Sochi,...